University Daily Kansan, February 9, 1983 Page 9
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Bill would raise driving age
A state Representative yesterday introduced a bill that would raise the minimum age to apply for a driver's license to 17.
The bill, introduced by State Rep Bill Fuller, R Miltonvale, would also provide for issuance of a restricted driver's license to 15-year-olds. But a parent or guardian would have to apply on behalf of a 15-year-old who wanted a permit.
-Legislative Roundup
Drunken driving law proposed
Drunken driving law proposed
Eleven legislators sponsored a bill
involved in the repeal of the
that that to evoke the driver's
license of a person convicted of
a proposed drunken driving charge,
driving while impaired.
Driving while impaired was proposed by Gov. John Carlin in January. Under the proposal, a driver could be charged for the offense if he had a blood alcohol content of .65 percent or above.
A drunken driver can currently be convicted only for driving under the influence, which would require a blood alcohol content of 1. percent or
Bill would raise drinking age
The age for drinking 3.2 percent beer would be raised to 19 after July 1, 1983, and then would be increased to 20 and 21 in following years, if a bill introduced in the Legislature yesterday passes.
Committee to quiz Lady
sure Senate. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, sponsored the bill, which would increase the legal drinking age from 19 to 20 after July 1, 1984. The drinking age would be raised again to 21 after July 1, 1985.
Wendell Lady will appear before the Senate Confirmations Committee tomorrow to answer questions on her nomination to the Board of Regents.
Lady was nominated by Carlin in December, and his confirmation is
expected to meet with some opposition from Republican senators. Lady was speaker of the House from 1978 to 1982.
Bill gives students tax break
Students who support themselves firmly will be able to subtract 30 percent of their educational expenses from their state income tax, if a bill introduced in the Legislature yesterday becomes law.
Bill proposes school arbitration
The bill, introduced by State Rep R.D. Mellon, R-Russell, would also exempt income earned by students in work-study programs from state income tax.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, has co-sponsored a bill that would require third-party arbitration in disputes between school boards and organizations of school employees.
According to existing law, when a school board and a school employees" organization cannot resolve a dispute, the school board is empowered to act in the public interest or interest of the school employees.
Heat pump tax credit debated
A bill that would extend solar energy tax credits to heat pumps met with opposition yesterday from representatives of natural gas utilities and the Kansas Department of Revenue.
Bills limit public smoking
The committee took no action
Representatives of electric utilities and the Kansas Corporation Commission testified in favor of the bill in a hearing before the House Assessment and Taxation Committee.
Smoking in retail food markets would be prohibited and restaurants would have to set aside at least 35 percent of their dining area for non-smokers if two bills introduced in the House yesterday become law.
Report cites human rights success
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration said yesterday its policy of using quiet diplomacy rather than public accusations had an impact on improving the human rights situation around the world.
Although the State Department's annual report on the issue steers carefully away from making a firm global assessment of this year compared to previous years, Elliot Abrams, assistant secretary of state for human rights, said respect for human rights had improved somewhat.
The 1,321-page report finds progress in countries such as Brazil, Uruguay and Chile.
is getting worse in other countries, including Nicaragua, Iran and Czecho-
slovakia.
STILL OTHERS, Abrams said, were up and down. He cited South Africa, where apartheid had allowed whites, 16 percent of the population, to retain political control.
Abrams took an indirect slap at the public exposure tactics used by the
"As to the question of tactics, the Reagan administration's test is effectiveness," he said in the report. "With this new platform, diplomacy, not public pronouncements,
*Our aim is to achieve results, not to make self-satisfying but ineffective.
other comparisons between the 162 countries. It was prepared to help Congress decide whether countries that signed the U.S. Constitution were eligible to receive it.
ASKED WHAT country had the worst human rights record, Abrams said. "The toughest would be Vietnam. It might have forced them to live in, on the basis of our report."
Abrams denied that the administration had used different standards for communist and non-communist governments.
The report said the Vietnamese government had systematically deprived ethnic Chinese of their livelihood, forced them to leave, established large forced-labor camps, invaded the neighboring country of Kampuchea, or
The report criticized Israel for building civilian settlements in occupied territories and said the construc- tion was not Palestinian Arabs of their livelihood.
However, Abrams said. "This is not at human rights violation per se."
The report contains no statistical or
On South Africa, the report said,
"National ections are free and fair,
but only whites may presently participate."
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A TRIBUTE TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION
The following is a response to an article in the February 2nd Journal-World about the recently rejected industrial park north of town which ends with Mr. Terry Sutcliffe, Lawrence National Bank president and one of those wishing to develop the site, hoping that individual community members would voice their opinions about it. Although the park would have taken some prime farmland out of production, the Journal-World describes the County Commission's decision as being primarily inspired by possible drainage and traffic safety problems. City Commissioner Barkley Clark, who considers the decision "one of the most fortunate," in a long time, also feels the commission's unexpressed concern about the loss of farmland was a "major underlying political issue here."
As early as the fourth and third centuries B.C., the Romans acknowledged the existence of public lands and common lands held by the state for the benefit, use and enjoyment of the people. The fact that a public interest in land was accepted at such an early stage of Western Civilization supports the contention that however vague or poorly defined the principle, there was recognition of the "trust doctrine".
A battle-scarred veteran of several intracounty courts recently referred me to a 1975 North Dakota Law Review article entitled, in part, the Trust Doctrine . . . and the Natural Law. Here are a few germaine excerpts from this piece:
The unique and irreplaceable prime agricultural lands of this country represent a national, natural resource treasure so vested with the public interest that they have become a public trust requiring those who might be the nominee to attend at this time the conference of faithful stewards and guardians of this priceless and limited gift of nature.
The federal government holds all the public lands of the United States...a as trustee for the benefit, use and enjoyment of the sovereign people of the United States.
The charge that the County Commission's decision is the inevitable result of a dark, swirling commitment to "no-growth" is based on the decision itself, not on any methods the commission employed reaching its decision, and is therefore without substance.
Fortunately for the residents of Douglas County, our County Commission is not afflicted with the shortsightedness which has left the "incestant-growth" crowd unable to see that, in the words of Victor John Yannacone, Jr., the author of the aforementioned North Dakota Law Review piece and co-founder of the Environment Foundation, "The unenumerated rights of the United States are one of those unenumerated rights retained by the sovereign People of the United States in the ninth amendment, and entitled to (governmental) protection."
Perhaps there is something wrong with an economic system which, in Mr. Yannacone's words, "in (its) frantic haste to supply a wastrel society with cheap energy" and activity; is forgetting that its natural resources are the fundamental assets of civilization.
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